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The Beecraft Queen Bee was an American
V-tailed four-seat cabin
monoplane, designed and built by
Bee Aviation Associates (Beecraft).
Development
The Queen Bee was an all-metal cantilever low-wing
monoplane powered by a
Lycoming O-320-A1A flat-four piston engine.
It had a V-tail and an electrically retractable
tricycle landing gear.
The
canopy shared a similar shape as the
Ryan Navion
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. The wings were outfitted with fiberglass
tip
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tanks. A 180 hp Lycoming O-360-A-1-A was planned as an optional engine.
Only a
prototype
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was built and the aircraft did not enter production. The Queen Bee prototype was destroyed when the original
San Diego Aerospace Museum
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burned down in 1978.
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1960s United States civil utility aircraft
Low-wing aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1960
Queen Bee
V-tail aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
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